It was the museum Christmas lunch today. None of us being at work Hilary, Sharon, Dianne and I met at eleven to drink coffee and have a chat. The full-time museum staff joined us at 12.30.
The Pink Pig is an organic farm shop and restaurant. The shop, I discovered, is fearsomely expensive. I was going to buy sausages, but can't feel that any sausage, however good, is worth £8 a kilo! The most famous sausages in Grimsby (from the shop where the Pink Pig's butcher formerly worked) cost that much for five pounds rather than two!
The Lunch itself (£9.99 for two courses) was excellent - good fresh vegetables and a very substantial fish pie, but the best thing was the conversation which was wide ranging and not just idle chatter with, for the most part, people whom I only know slightly as colleagues. I found that I was sitting opposite Steve, whom I have known for the last five years in his role as keeper of natural history, but only discovered today that he is a committed Christian - so with that in common conversation took off big time between, him, Dianne, Karen and myself and we bemoaned the narrowness of some people's christianity and the lack of proper christian education both in schools and afterwards.
It was also lovely to see David, who retired earlier in the year, and Kevin, who in theory also retired but is, according to Dianne (his wife), as busy as ever.
